Locating Memory

Photographic Acts
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-227-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Remapping Cultural History

As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of memory in contemporary landscapes: from sites of war and other violence through the lost places of indigenous peoples to the once-familiar everyday places of home, family, neighborhood and community. Paying close attention to the settings in which such photographs are made and used--family collections, public archives, museums, newspapers, art galleries--the contributors consider how meanings in photographs may be shifted, challenged and renewed over time and for different purposes--from historical inquiry to quests for personal, familial, ethnic and national identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuhn, Annette

Mcallister, Kirsten Emiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Locating Memory: Photographic Acts - An Introduction

Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister

PART I: IDENTITIES

Chapter 2. Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats

Andrea Walsh

Chapter 3. Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910

Elizabeth Edwards

Chapter 4. A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps

Kirsten Emiko McAllister

PART II: DIS/LOCATIONS

Chapter 5. The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph

Marlene A. Briggs

Chapter 6. ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Chapter 7. The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty

Andrew Quick

Chapter 8. Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art

Nick Kaye

PART III: REFRAMINGS

Chapter 9. Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory

Patrick Hagopian

Chapter 10. Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-photographic Framework

Martha Langford

Chapter 11. Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall

Jerry Zaslove and Glen Lowry

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mcallister, Kirsten Emiko
Kirsten Emiko McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She has written about photographs, visual culture and museum artifacts in West Coast Line, CineAction and Cultural Values, and is currently writing a book on a memorial that marks the site of a World War II Japanese-Canadian internment camp.

Kuhn, Annette
Annette Kuhn is Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and an editor of the journal Screen. She has written about photographs in The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985) and Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995). Her most recent book is An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002).

Annette Kuhn is Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and an editor of the journal Screen. She has written about photographs in The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985) and Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995). Her most recent book is An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002).